An impressively thorough exploration of the changing functions, character and experience of English towns in a key age of transition which includes smaller comm

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This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on

This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions